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The latter describes some mild aperient pills, the prescription for which Anderson says that he brought from Venice, which continued in 1843 to be sold in Edinburgh by the proprietor of an ancient patent. In 1625 Anderson saw through the press a religious work, called ‘The Countesse of Marres Arcadia,’ written by James Caldwoode, minister of Falkirk, and to it he prefixed a long dedicatory epistle addressed to the Countess of March, one of his patients. He wrote a history of Scotland in three folio volumes, preserved in manuscript in the Advocates" Library.
After his death Anderson"s friends published a satirical dramatic poem by him, entitled ‘The Copie of a Baron"s Court, newly translated by Whats-you-call-him, clerk to the same.
Printed at Helicon beside Parnassus, and are to be sold in Caledonia.’ This piece was reprinted in a limited edition in 1821, and to it an account of the author was prefixed.
